Crossword-Solution: MEGAPODE
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Megapode | n. | Any one of several species of large-footed, gallinaceous birds of the genera Megapodius and Leipoa, inhabiting Australia and other Pacific islands. See Jungle fowl (b) under Jungle, and Leipoa. |
We have 16 clues for the answer “MEGAPODE”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Aptly named heavy-footed bird | 1 answer |
| EAST New Britain bird | 1 answer |
| Large-footed bird. | 1 answer |
| PAPUAN bird | 1 answer |
| bird of Australia, New Guinea, and adjacent islands | 1 answer |
| megapod | 1 answer |
| mound-building bird | 1 answer |
| AUSTRALASIAN bird building mound of debris for egg-laying/hatching | 2 answers |
| BIRD building mound of debris for egg-laying/hatching | 2 answers |
| MALAY Archipelago mound-building bird | 2 answers |
| mound bird | 2 answers |
| AUSTRALASIAN bird | 3 answers |
| GALLINACEOUS bird | 17 answers |
| INDIAN bird | 24 answers |
| Asia bird | 28 answers |
| LARGE bird | 30 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
An inflammatory disease of the skin, characterized by the
presence of redness and itching, an eruption of small vesicles, and the
discharge of a watery exudation, which often dries up, leaving the skin
covered with crusts; -- called also tetter, milk crust, and salt rheum.
Hint 2 anagram
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Hint 3 another clue
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Sentences with MEGAPODE (5)
The megapode, with no sense of fear, is so silly that it would have been annihilated hundreds of centuries before had it not been preserved by the taboos of the chiefs and priests.
Actually was he hungry when he had megapode eggs, and the well-nigh dried founts of saliva and of internal digestive juices were stimulated to flow again at contemplation of a megapode egg prepared for the eating.
Even worse, in high priestly sacrilege, he encouraged Jerry to attack a megapode hen in the act of laying.
Why have we no residential parrot, though cockatoos are plentiful; no scrub turkey though the megapode scampers in all directions in the jungle; no common black crow, nor butcher bird, though other shrikes (the magpie for instance) come and go; no wren, no finch, no lark? Scrub turkeys (TALLEGALLA LATHAMI), mound builders like the megapode, are plentiful all along the coast, at certain seasons visiting the scrub which margins the opposite beach, but they are not found on these islands.
THE MEGAPODE The cackle and call of the scrub fowl (MEGAPODIUS DUPERREYS) are nocturnal as well as sounds of the day, being repeated at intervals all through the night.
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Appears in: LAT, NYT.
Used 2 times in crossword archives (1958–2017).